The Theatrical Professoriate: Contemporary Higher Education and Its Academic Dramas

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Introducing...the Theatrical Professoriate
• 1. A Crisis of Representation
• 2. The Spectacle-Archive of the Public's Professoriate
• 3. The Theatrical Turn of Academia's Diversity Crisis
• 4. The STEM Takeover and Academia's Makeover
• 5. Professorial Performance in the Neoliberal Academy
• 6. Chapter Breakdown
• Chapter 1 : #Oscars So White and Historically White Universities
• 1. The Spectacle-Archive of the 2015 Academy Awards
• 2. Hollywood's and Academia's Myths of Meritocracy
• 3. Whiplash, Boyhood, and The Stanford Prison Experiment
• 4. "A Long and Terrifying Fall" in Still Alice and The Theory of Everything
• 5. Personalized Epiphanies, or "Eureka" Moments
• 6. A Failure to "Only connect!"
• 7. The Theatrical Facade of an Uncaring Academy
• Chapter 2 : Academic Drama on Stage and Screen
• 1. Staging the Professor's Body: Canonical Academic Plays Turned Screenplays
• 2. David Mamet's Oleanna and Teaching Against the Machine
• 3. Margaret Edson's Wit and the Maternal Wall
• 4. David Auburn's Proof and the Violence of Mind-Body Dualism
• 5. Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter and the Diversity Charade
• Chapter 3 : Behind the Scenes of Academia's Diversity Charades
• 1. The Spectacle of "Microaggressions" and the Racial Crisis Facing Academia
• 2. The Mediated Versions of Dear White People
• 3. The Stage Origins of I, Too, Am Harvard
• 4. Eleanor Burgess's The Niceties
• 5. Rachel Lynett's Well-Intentioned White People
• 6. Lydia Diamond's Smart People
• 7. "Diversity Theatre" as Critical Theory
• Chapter 4 : Framing Science for the Death of the Humanities
• 1. The Interdisciplinary Pitfalls of "STE(A)M"
• 2. Amateurism as Antidote for the Theatrical Professoriate
• 3. Staging Physics' Toxic Masculinity in Losing the Nobel Prize
• 4. Framing Computer Science in Purely Academic
• 5. A Backstage Tour of the Nobel Prize in Margin of Error
• 6. STEM as Theatre's New Patron
• Conclusion Diagnosing Academia's Theatrical Turn
• 1. The Humane Interventions of Karen Zacarias's Just Like Us
• 2. The Ambivalent Spotlight of the Theatrical Turn
• 3. Academic Drama as Pharmakon
• 4. Confessions of an Academic Theatre Interventionist
• 5. Framing Computer Science in Purely Academic
• 6. A Backstage Tour of the Nobel Prize in Margin of Error
• 7. STEM as Theatre's New Patron
• Index